2015 Informs Annual Meeting

PLENARY AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

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All Plenary & Keynote Presentations will take place in the Convention Center.

KEYNOTE 3:10–4pm 201C, 200 Level 2015 Daniel H. Wagner Prize Winner Announcement and Reprise

computations for general as well as special structured problems and connections to submodular optimization for the 0-1 case. We will present applications of conic integer optimization in probabilistic optimization, portfolio optimization, and location/inventory optimization with risk pooling.

and optimization can play in solving them. We argue that in some cases a change of the problem framework may be desirable and that this may be made while keeping the solution computationally achievable. We outline a number of existing and emerging fundamental research challenges and discuss some recent promising avenues in the area. A distinguishing feature of power grid applications is that optimization is ubiquitous and it must accommodate simultaneously multiple complexity drivers. These include not only discrete variables, nonconvexity, or stochasticity, but also ordinary and—with the increased usage of natural gas—partial differential equations. We discuss the productivity and performance implications of this fact for the modeling and computational environments. Mihai Anitescu is a Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. His research interests are in the areas of numerical optimization, computational science, numerical analysis, senior computational mathematician in the used techniques from these areas in key applications in power grid and related infrastructure, nuclear engineering, materials science, geosciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, and signal processing. He has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in scholarly journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and he is on the editorial board of Mathematical Programming A and B, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Optimization Methods

Alper Atamturk is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia

Daniel H. Wagner earned his PhD in

mathematics in 1951 from Brown University. He began his career in the U.S. Navy’s Operations Evaluation Group (OEG) at the

Institute of Technology in 1998 with a major in operations research and minor in computer science. His current research interests are in discrete optimization and optimization under uncertainty with applications to energy, therapy, and defense. He serves on the editorial boards of Discrete Optimization, Journal of Risk, Mathematical Programming Computation, Networks, and Operations Research . He served on the organizing committees of INFORMS, IPCO, MIP, among others. He served as vice chair-integer programming of the INFORMS Optimization Society during 2008–2009. Dr. Atamturk is a U.S. Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Fellow. KEYNOTE 3:10–4pm Grand Ballroom B, Upper 200 Level Getting More Out of a Modern Power Grid: The Role of Mathematical Modeling and Optimization Mihai Anitescu, Senior Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, and Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago The electrical power grid (the electricity transmission and distribution system) is one of the most complex engineering achievements of the 20th century. It is also at the center of massive changes in the way we create and consume energy. Such changes are brought about by many drivers, including an increasing use of renewable energy and natural gas. Moreover, the power grid exhibits persistent conceptual

Pentagon, where he worked on operations research for naval warfare. In 1963, he created

Inc., which is still in existence today. During his years as president and principal owner of Wagner Associates, Dan brought many high- quality mathematicians into the operations

Coast Guard, and other clients; many of these applications are still in service today. After retirement from his eponymous company, Dan Wagner continued his commitment to the teaching and research positions with the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Naval Academy. He was an active member of ORSA, and then INFORMS, for more than 40 years.

WAGNER PRIZE The Daniel H. Wagner Prize is

awarded for a paper and presentation that describe a real-world, successful application of operations research or advanced analytics. The prize criteria emphasize innovative, elegant mathematical modeling and clear exposition.

Computing, and SIAM/ASA Journal on .

contained by engineering practice, have never been fully resolved. In this talk, we

important role that mathematical modeling